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Guardiola: There is No One Better Than Real Madrid

I-League 2013-14: Performance Analysis (Foreign Players)

Manchester United Sure of Beating Chelsea in £30m Deal for Luke Shaw

Barcelona Target Big Names As FIFA Temporarily Suspends Transfer Ban

Report: David Moyes Calls Manchester United ‘Unprofessional’ As Skeletons Tumble Out

Real Mandrid Have Most Dangerous Counter-Attack in the World: Former Bayern Star

A Look Back At David Moyes's Journey At Manchester United: Key Moments, Statements and Reactions

Latest Stories

Real Madrid Boss Carlo Ancelotti: Ronaldo Was at 50% Only
Guardiola: There is No One Better Than Real Madrid
I-League 2013-14: Performance Analysis (Foreign Players)
Manchester United Sure of Beating Chelsea in £30m Deal for Luke Shaw
Arsenal FC: How To Keep Ozil, Ramsey & Walcott Fit Next Season
Barcelona Target Big Names As FIFA Temporarily Suspends Transfer Ban
Report: David Moyes Calls Manchester United ‘Unprofessional’ As Skeletons Tumble Out

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Manchester United Sure of Beating Chelsea in £30m Deal for Luke Shaw
Ferguson to Have Veto Power in Selection of Moyes Successor at Manchester United
Mourinho Threatens to Pull Chelsea Out of EPL Race to Concentrate on Champions League
FC Barcelona in Contact with Roma Coach Rudi Garcia to Replace Martino
Manchester United Plan to Approach Pep Guardiola to Take the Reigns
Five Contenders to Replace David Moyes at Manchester United
Manchester United Target Ezequiel Garay Hints At Future Away From Benfica
Real Madrid Ready To Sell Arsenal And Juventus Target Karim Benzema
Report: Chelsea Ready to Sell David Luiz to Barcelona for £25m

English Premier League

Manchester United Sure of Beating Chelsea in £30m Deal for Luke Shaw
Arsenal FC: How To Keep Ozil, Ramsey & Walcott Fit Next Season
Report: David Moyes Calls Manchester United ‘Unprofessional’ As Skeletons Tumble Out
A Look Back At David Moyes's Journey At Manchester United: Key Moments, Statements and Reactions

German Bundesliga

Real Madrid Boss Carlo Ancelotti: Ronaldo Was at 50% Only
Guardiola: There is No One Better Than Real Madrid

Italia Serie A

FC Barcelona in Contact with Roma Coach Rudi Garcia to Replace Martino
Mehdi Benatia - The Colossus Of An Unbreakable AS Roma Defence

Spanish La Liga

Real Madrid Boss Carlo Ancelotti: Ronaldo Was at 50% Only
Guardiola: There is No One Better Than Real Madrid

Match Center

Real Madrid v Bayern Munich – Team News, Tactics, Line-ups And Prediction | Champions League

Previews and Reports

Diego Simeone: Chelsea Have The Advantage In The Second Leg

Atletico Madrid were held to a 0-0 draw in the first leg of their Champions League semifinal on Tuesday after [...]

Jose Mourinho Praises His Team’s Character After A Stalemate At Vicente Calderon

Chelsea earned a credible 0-0 draw with Atletico Madrid in Tuesday's Champions League semi-final first leg alt[...]

Premier League Talking Points: Liverpool Go Five Points Clear As Chelsea Are Beaten At Home

TheHardTackle wraps up week 35 of the English Premier League season which saw Liverpool stretch their lead at [...]

Atletico Madrid v Chelsea – Team News, Tactics, Line-ups And Prediction | Champions League

Atletico Madrid host Chelsea FC in the first leg of their Champions League semi-final tie at Vicente Calderon [...]

Bundesliga Review: Stuttgart Stun Schalke While The Rest Of The Relegation Candidates Falter | Matchday 31

Stuttgart defeated Schalke to earn three valuable points to stay afloat of the relegation zone. This and more [...]

Featured

Barcelona Target Big Names As FIFA Temporarily Suspends Transfer Ban

Opinions and Analysis

A Look Back At David Moyes’s Journey At Manchester United: Key Moments, Statements and Reactions

The Chosen One and his destiny at Old Trafford[...]

FC Barcelona : What Does The Future Hold For Cesc Fabregas?

Cesc Fabregas is yet to find a steady role at the Camp Nou. What does the future hold for him? [...]

First Ever Treble in Sight for Real Madrid

By winning the Copa Del Rey, making it to the semi-finals of Champions League and being only 3 points behind La Liga leaders Atletico Madrid, Real Madrid have e[...]

Is Tottenham Hotspur’s Answer For Success Within Its Academy?

Tottenham Hotspur’s Academy graduates have done well off late. Are they the much needed key to turn things around for the north London Club? 3o Million pounds[...]

Chelsea FC – John Terry’s Remarkable Change Of Form

Very few footballers divides opinions like John Terry, yet time and again he has managed to rise above doubts and reinstated his status of a Chelsea FC legend.[...]

THT Satire: The Case of the Missing Football Fans

Authorities are perplexed as conspiracy theories abound about how millions of young male football fans could vanish overnight from their online presences. [...]

Real Madrid vs Bayern Munich-What Separates The Two European Giants?

Here are three factors that will shape the fixture[...]

Mehdi Benatia – The Colossus Of An Unbreakable AS Roma Defence

Mehdi Benatia has been a rock at the back for AS Roma this season. A look back at some of his wonderful displays for the Giallorossi this term. ‘If Roma a[...]

Article Of the Week

Thousand And Still Counting – Favorite 10 Stories Of Arsene Wenger

Here, we will list down the ten best stories of this Arsenal team under Arsene Wenger in these 18 years at the club.[...]

La Liga: Barcelona, Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid Race Towards a Climactic Finish

Who will run away with the Spanish crown in this close race?[...]

Talking Game – Interviews

[Exclusive] Marco Materazzi On Jose Mourinho, World Cup And Indian Super League

In this edition of The Talking Game, Former Inter Milan defender Marco Materazzi talks with us about the treble under Jose Mourinho, Italy's 2006 World Cup tri[...]

Classic Clashes

Leeds United 4-5 Liverpool : An Elland Road Epic (Classic Clashes)

Liverpool and Leeds United played out an epic match at Elland Road, two years before football was "invented" in 1992.[...]

Blackpool 4-3 Bolton Wanderers : The Matthews FA Cup Final (Classic Clashes)

The zenith of Sir Stanley Matthews' remarkable three and half decade long career came in 1953 FA Cup final for Blackpool. A match which is now simply known as t[...]

Relic – History

Santos 1962 : The story of Pele and his friends

TheHardTackle looks back at the team to have won the first treble of world football[...]

Before Ajax, Michels And Cruyff: The forgotten Feyenoord team of 1970

When one talks of Dutch football in the early 70's, many people unleash a sonnet, announcing the perfection and innovation and dominance of Ajax, Rinus Michels [...]

Rewind

Arsenal 2-2 Manchester United: A North London Classic [THT Rewind]

As Arsenal prepare to host Manchester United on Wednesday night THT takes a look back to the second meeting between the sides at The Emirates stadium.[...]

Chelsea 5-0 Manchester United: Blues Run Riot In An Incredible Afternoon At Stamford Bridge

TheHardTackle rewinds the clock back to October 1999, when Chelsea recorded one of the most famous victories over Manchester United in the Premier League[...]

Whiteboard – Tactics

Tactical Analysis: Manchester United Soaked Pressure, Bayern Dominate Flanks

We tactically analyse the clash between Manchester United and Bayern Munich as the Red Devils soak up pressure and Bayern dominate in the flanks.

Man United vs Bayern Tactics: Inverted Wingers, Pressing And Counter-attacks | UCL

Ahead of the quarter finals of the Champions League encounter between Manchester United and Bayern Munich, we provide a tactical analysis on how the match can be won or lost by either sides.

Indian Football

I-League 2013-14: Performance Analysis (Foreign Players)

The 2013/14 I-league campaign is near its fag-end and like every season, this term too has its set of top and flop foreigners. While some foreign players have h[...]

AFC Cup 2014 : New Radiant SC V Churchill Brothers Preview

The Red Machines travel to Maldives for their penultimate match against New Radiant SC at the National Stadium in Male. [...]